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Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:32:31 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: wardhobbyhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/17/alex-rodriguez-expects-to-be-back-with-the-yankees-on-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-532970
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:17:59 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532970One would think that MLB would do something, if it is going to do any suspending of A-Rod before he returns. They sure are dragging this out.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:27:38 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532534A Roid is back and juicier than ever! I can’t wait to see him go 0 for for a few games then Girardi will be forced to bench him and the A Roid era will enter it’s final stage. If you haven’t been keeping up, this is the stage where the Yankees have to pay him 20 plus million a season to sit on their bench for 5 more seasons and flirt with the ladies in the crowd which is all a washed up juicer no hitting clown like A Roid’s good for now that the juicing has caught up with him.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:33:47 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532471Agreed
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:54:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532441And somehow every year people say that a waiver-wire utility guy is going to be better. Decline phase ARod > most players peak.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:53:48 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532412

You base your opinion on a statistical argument written 8 years after he left Texas,

Ok, let’s look at what he did, raw stat numbers:

In those three years, he missed one game total and put up a .305/.395/.615 155 OPS+ slash line averaging 52 HR, 132 RBI, 190 H, and 127 Runs.

He averaged 52 HR, AVERAGED. As a SS. He had 190 H a year. He was an above average defensive SS as well. The best hitting SS last year was Zobrist, who put up a .270/.377/.471 line with 20 HR, 151 H, and 74 RBI. Arod beat that by 32 HR, 39 H, and 58 RBI.

AVERAGED those numbers.

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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 05:50:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532392Nah, go to State school, then go into malpractice. Tons of bad doctors.Half the clowns that go to med school got in through family or alumni connections.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 05:46:55 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532391Nobody ever said Texans were the brightest sequins on the shirt.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 05:46:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532390Yeah , even ManRam hit a hundred points higher in AA.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 02:57:41 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532375In other news MLB will suspend A-rod for 150 games on Tuesday….if the vibe for this seaason continues unchanged for the Yankees, that is.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 02:39:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532372How is any of that ARod’s fault? Boo the GM. Alex was well paid and played even better. If anything, the PED use should count in his favor, as he was trying to produce for his team.

I am not trying to poke at you jayscarpa, but merely pointing out that Rangers fans should have no beef with ARod. If they do it only goes to show their ignorance.

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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 01:34:39 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532362Does Brian Cashman know yet? Hopefully he’s following A-Fraud on Twitter.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:31:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532352A Rod has tweeted his new number to all his minor league women fans stating..” I didn’t want to be a distraction to these teams and it was just easier this way.”
See you at THE SHOW.
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Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:27:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532351Doth protest too much. I’m a NYY fan for 50 years – I could give a rats ass. The guy asked and I stated what the prevailing opinion was at the time in Texas from newspapers and fans. Among other things. You base your opinion on a statistical argument written 8 years after he left Texas, lol. Yeah, I’m sure the average Joe Fan spent a lot of time going over it at Fangraphs. You’re throwing numbers at emotions and you’ll never win that argument.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:51:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532341

The general opinion was that his contract was impeding the Rangers from improving because it was such a large percentage of the payroll.

And anyone who thinks this is a moron. Posting this again, courtesy of fangraphs:

Arod cost the Rangers $25M/year. In those three years, he missed one game total and put up a .305/.395/.615 155 OPS+ slash line averaging 52 HR, 132 RBI, 190 H, and 127 Runs.

The Rangers, on the other hand, paid Kenny Rogers and Darren Oliver a combined $14.5 million for a whopping +2.7 WAR, and that’s a generous assessment based on their FIP, as they each posted an ERA over 6.00 that year. They also gave Andres Galarraga $6 million for -0.1 WAR, Rusty Greer got $4.6 million for +0.1 WAR, and Ken Caminiti got $3.5 million for +0.1 WAR. The Rangers essentially flushed a huge chunk of their payroll down the drain on players who produced around replacement level, and I cannot come up with any rational way to blame that on Rodriguez.

In 2002, they sought to make some drastic changes to their roster, and in the process, raised their team payroll to $105 million, third highest in Major League Baseball. They gave Juan Gonzalez a two year, $24 million deal to return to the Rangers and try to recapture his past glory. They gave Chan Ho Park a five year, $65 million contract to try and fix their pitching problems. They traded Darren Oliver to Boston, and in exchange, they took on the remaining $17 million left on the final two years of Carl Everett‘s contract. They brought in John Rocker to try and stabilize the bullpen.

$12M/year for Juan Gone, $13M/year for Chan Ho Park. Arod outperformed his contract while those bums collected a paycheck, and it was Arod’s fault? Give me a break

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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:45:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532340If you think about it, Rodriguez is about the only polarizing figure in MLB. He’s a lot more like an NBA player like that.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:50:47 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532334The Rangers really sucked the three years he was there. Three losing seasons.

The general opinion was that his contract was impeding the Rangers from improving because it was such a large percentage of the payroll. The year after he was traded the Rangers had a winning record

He’s admitted to using PED’s while playing for the Rangers.

He’s a pretty easy target.

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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:42:25 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532331I hope he kills it
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:13:55 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532327How dare Alex do…I mean say…I mean…why do Ranger’s fans dislike him? He signed with the Rangers as a free agent, was absolutely spectacular when he played for the Rangers, the Rangers traded him away, and he voided the contract that said the Rangers had to pay him to play for the Yankees during his decline phase.

What possible gripe do Rangers fans have against ARod?

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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:07:48 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532326Derek Jeter: 111/385/111 in his rehab assignment.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:00:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532324Chipotle’s doesn’t stick around that long.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:40:51 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532318It’s tough to judge him on that, though. The impression I get is rehab stats are basically the same as spring training stats. The goal isn’t to hit well, it’s to get your body ready to play in the majors.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:40:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532317So?
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:40:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532316You know how spring training stats don’t matter. Yeah, same thing here. And even his terrible, completely not-good rehab stats are better than Luis Cruz.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:38:54 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532315I’m sad to say that quite a few Yankee fans will find reasons to boo him even if he magically returns to the level of production he had in his MVP years. I would love to see him succeed, both because I’m tired of all the negative stories and because the Yankee offense could really use the help. I think it’s very possible that I’ll end up in the minority, though.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:38:53 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532314Hi. You must be new here. This is the internet. Please leave your rational thinking and reasonable stances at the door and come on in!
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:23:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532305Heart attack according to the autopsy.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:23:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532304I was going to skip this visit to Texas but I think I will make the drive to Arlington. Alex always gets such a warm welcome here.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:22:40 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532303Good thing that I am not interested.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:22:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532302If he can help the team win that is all that matters.
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Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:19:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=486940#comment-532301Say bad things about Jetes and you will never
get one of those custom made baskets my friend.
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